Holybourne - Community pages for this village near Alton, in the Wey valley. Includes history, news, local events, organisations and photo gallery.
Holybourne Theatre - Group performing pantomime and 2 other productions plus a Youth Theatre play per year. Productions, history and friends.
Holybourne Cricket Club - Includes players, events, fixtures, results, news and club information.
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Holybourne How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Holybourne
"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Holybourne It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Holybourne
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Holybourne "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Holybourne
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Holybourne Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Holybourne
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Holybourne The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Holybourne
I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Holybourne .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Holybourne
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Holybourne "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Holybourne
"See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Holybourne That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley May you never leave your marriage alive. The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Holybourne
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Holybourne "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Holybourne
"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Holybourne Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Holybourne
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Holybourne Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Holybourne
